[New-bugs-announce] [issue10786] unittest.TextTextRunner does not respect redirected stderr

[cooyeah]

New submission from cooyeah <cooyeah at gmail.com>:

The constructor of TextTestRunner class looks like:
def __init__(self, stream=sys.stderr, descriptions=1, verbosity=1)

Since the default parameter is evaluated only once, if sys.stderr is redirected later, the test would still use the old stderr when it was first initialized.

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components: Tests
messages: 124764
nosy: cooyeah
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: unittest.TextTextRunner does not respect redirected stderr
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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